Thesis Proclamation of José Vicente Maldonado y Trespalacios, dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe

Baltasar Troncoso y Sotomayor Mexican
 Publisher Herederos de María de Rivera Mexican

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This is a thesis presented to the Royal University of Mexico by a candidate for a degree in Medicine. The thesis is dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose image is included in the form of a small engraving with a Latin inscription that translates 'He hath done this for no other nation.' The phrase affirmed that the Virgin’s miraculous apparition in Mexico was a sign of divine favor. It was invoked with particular frequency after 1737 when the Virgin of Guadalupe was credited with intervening to end a deadly epidemic.

Thesis Proclamation of José Vicente Maldonado y Trespalacios, dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, Baltasar Troncoso y Sotomayor (Mexican, 1725–1791), Woodcut, letterpress and engraving (image of the Virgin) printed on white silk with a decorative metalic thread border backed with a panel of red silk.

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